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Volume 6 - April 1996

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Visible and invisible realms. Power, magic, and colonial conquest in Bali. By Margaret J. Wiener. pp. xvi, 445, 11 illus. and maps. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1995. US $80.50, £55.95 (cloth); US $29.75, £20.75 (paperback).

Lexicon of Tamil Literature. By Kamil V. Zvelebil. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abteilung 2. Indien. Band 9.) pp. XXVII, 783. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1994. NLG 450, US $257.25

Himalayan Buddhist villages: environment, resources, society and religious life in Zangskar, Ladakh. Edited by John Crook and Henry Osmaston. pp. xxx, 866, front., 80 pi., 72 figs., errata and addenda slip. Bristol, University of Bristol, 1994. £25.00.

Images of power: Balinese paintings made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. By Hildred Geertz. pp. x, 13; 133 illus., map. Honolulu, University of Hawaii press, 1994. US $50.00 (cloth), US $29.95 (paper).

Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca, 1641–1795. By Dianne Lewis. (Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, 96.) pp. xvi, 160, map. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Centre for International Studies, 1995. £19.75.

Ni Brahmanes ni Ancêtres. Colporteurs Musulmans du Népal. By Marc Gaborieau. (Mémoires de la Société d'Ethnologie, IV.) pp. 470, 12 pl., 20 figs, 4 maps. Nanterre, Société d'Ethnologie, 1993.

Within the human realm: the poetry of Huang Zunxian 1848–1905. By J. D. Schmidt. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. xi, 355. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £30.00.

Kirtipur: an urban community in Nepal, its people, town planning, architecture and arts. Edited by Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy. (Monographs on Art, Archaeology and Architecture. South Asian Series.) pp. vi, 258, 150 photos, 79 figs. London, Araxus, 1994, £43.00.

Indonesia: a country study. Edited by William H. Frederick and Robert L. Worden. (Area Handbook Series, 550–39.) pp. xlix, 462, illus., 18 maps and figs. Washington DC, Federal Research Division Library of Congress, 1993. Fifth edition.

The Nan Chronicle. Edited and translated by David K. Wyatt. (Studies on Southeast Asia, No. 16.) pp. 158, 1 illus., 4 maps. Ithaca, NY, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994.

The Cambridge history of China. Volume 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907–1368. Edited by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett. pp. xxix, 864, 37 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £75.00.

The cultural dimension of Sino-Japanese relations. Essays on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By Joshua A. Fogel. pp. vii, 190. Armonk, NY and London, M. E. Sharpe, 1995. £40.00 (cloth), £16.00 (paperback).

Historical Records. By Sima Qian, translated with an introduction and notes by Raymond Dawson. (The World's Classics.) pp. xxvii, 176, map. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1994, £6.99.

Imperial rulership and cultural change in traditional China. Edited by Frederick P. Brandauer and Chün-chieh Huang, pp. xviii, 312. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1994.

Education and society in late imperial China, 1600–1900. Edited by Benjamin A. Elman and Alexander Woodside. pp. xvi, 575, 4 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1994. US S65.00.

Japan. Introduced by Hugh Cortazzi and Terry Bennett. Series editor Vitaly Naumkin. (Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives.) pp. 159, 124 col. photos. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1995. £25.00.

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Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China. Translated with annotations and an introduction by Richard E. Strassberg. pp. xxvii, 580, front., 64 illus., 5 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1994. US $60.00 (cloth), US $20.00 (paperback).

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